Device for removing eyes from potatoes, pineapples, &amp;c.



U. LOBB.

DEVICE FOR REMOVING EYES PROM POTATOES PINEAPPLES, ($00.

I APPLICATION FILED NOV. 9, 1910.

" 1,03 1 4, Patented Se t, 10, 19.12.

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UNA LOBB, OF PHILADELPHIA, EPENNSYLVANIA.

DEVICE FOR REMOVING EYES FROM POTATOES, PINEAPPLES, zc.

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Specification of Letters JPatent.

lP-atented Sept. it 1912.

Application filed November 9, 1919. Serial No. 591313.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, UNA Leon, :1 subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for Removing Eyes from Potatoes, Pineapples, and the Like, of which the following is a s 'iecification.

My invention relates to improvements in devices for removing eyes from potatoes, pineapples, and the like, the object of the invention being to provide a simple inexpensive construction adapted to be readily manipulated in the hand to easily and etfectually remove eyes from potatoes, pineapples and the like, and which by the mere inward pressure on the device serves to draw the cutting ends together, and out out the eye together with a conical portion of the potato or pineapple.

A. further object is to provide a device of this character which composed of a single piece of spring sheet metal stamped and bent in an improved manner rendering the device simple and inexpensive, yetstrong and durable in use.

With these and other objects in view, the

invention consists in certain novel features of constriwtion and combimitions and arrangen ients of parts, as will be more fully hereinafter described and pointed out in the claim.

In the acconnianying drawings: Figure l, is a edge view illustrating my improvements. Fig. 2, is a view in side elevation. Fig. 3, is a, ,view in section on the line 3-3 of Fig. L, and Fig. 4, is an end view.

My improved device is made from a single blank 0! spring sheet metal, the intermediate or central portion of which being ex tended transversely at both sides so as to l'orm a grip or hand hold 1 when the device is bent, the said enlarged portion also constituting a sprin and assisting the arms 2 which extend trom the edges oi this cn lnrgcd portion, to maintain such arms in parallelism and return thcm to such position when permitted. Haid arms 2 are onlarged between their ends forming linger holds 3 to facilitate the movement oi. the arms toward each other, and atthe l'ree ends of these arms integral semi-conical cut ci's l, 4', are provided.

The inner edges 5 of these cutters t are sharpened and are so arranged that when the arms are pressed together these cutting edges come together in a line with the longitudinal center of the device, and when apart these cutting edges appear to flare outward from their inner to then outer ends.

The outer faces of said cutters, which are curved in cross section, taper inward from their inner to their outer ends constituting, in etl'ect, cam faces which when the cutters are forced into the potato or pineapple cause the latter to exert a cam action on the cutters, forcing the latter toward each other as they are pressed into the potato or pineapple, and finally bringing said cutters t0- gether with the eye between them.

Moisture and superfluous potato or pineapple is permitted to escape through openings 6 in said cutters, affording the minimum of resistance to the movement of the cutters toward each other.

In operation, therefore, it is simply necessary for; the operator to position the cutters at opposite sides of the eye, and then press said cutters into the potato or pineapple, when the cam action against the cutters will force the cutters together, completely 'cutting around the eye, and when the device is removed and the cutters separated by rea son of the spring action of arms 2, and the handle portion 1, the potato eye is dropped from the device. ()f course, the eye may be retained in the device as long desired by simply maintaining a pressure on the arms, but the eye will be quickly dropped when the pressure is released. The operator holds the device in one hand with the thumb against the enlarged portion 3 of one arm, and one of the lingers against the enlarged portion 3 of the other arm, with the enlarged handle or grip portion in the palm of the hand, and this manner of holding the device enables the operator a free manipulation of the C-tlttcrs in the operation of cutting out the eye.

Various slight changes might be made in the general form and arrangement of parts described without departing from my invention, and hence is do not limitmyself to the preise details set forth, but consider myself at. liberty to make such changes and alterations as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of the appended claim.

llaving thus described my invention, what claim as new and desire to secure by Lettors Patent. is:

A device of the character described, con1- from their inner to their outer ends, and I the members of said device which are formed by the bending positioned normally parallel between said cutters andsaid intermediate portion, substantially as described. 5

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

7 UNA LOBB.

Witnesses:

R. H. Keen KEL, C. E. Poms. 

